OpenShot Video Editor

Upgrade CPU or graphics card for editing HD video?

Asked by Andre Holdstock

I use OpenShot extensively to join HD video snippets (from sports matches) and transcode it into various formats. I would like to edit the video in OpenShot as well but this is not possible because the video cannot play in the preview window, most likely because the hardware is not up to the task (cpu is an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ from a few years ago).

I would like to know if if the editing is CPU or Graphics card intensive. Or, in other words, do I need to upgrade my CPU/motherboard or will a graphics card upgrade suffice,

Thanks in advance,
Ollie

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Best Olivier Girard (eolinwen) said : 		#1

Hi,
Like I am the Geek of service of the Team, I answer you. :) ^ ^
Your hardware is too old for working in HD definition. You can not use it same for reading and I don't speak for working with............
You must upgrade with another CPU and like you want to work with HD you should take a quad core with at least 4 GO of memory (me now it is in 8 Go when I will create another configuration) with a big Hard Drive (2 To) and if you have more money a SSD for the system (in 64 bits of course). And the graphic card, for editing video, it is not important to have a big, for sample an AMD 6850 is the limit to not go beyond. Under if you want to encode with the GPUG but in Linux it is not okay, yet.

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Andre Holdstock (ollie-hstock) said : 		#2

Hi Cenwen,

Thanks for the feedback. That is what I feared. Now to wait to see what AMD Bulldozer can bring to the video editing table and then the big upgrade.